Hi Mike, Thanks for giving me a login to both wxsession and wxsat. This allowed me to figure out what why a McIDAS DSINFO query as user 'unisup' would not show information for the ER dataset hosted on wxsat. The problem is in how the MCCOMPRESS environment variable is being set for your user(s). Upon login to wxsession, 'echo $MCCOMPRESS' showed: address@hidden ~]$ echo $MCCOMPRESS TRUE The McIDAS-X v2006 installation on the remote ADDE server machine has moved away from use of ports 500/503 (for uncompressed and 'compress' compressed transfers, respectively) to exclusive use of port 112 for uncompressed and gzip-compressed transfers. This necessitates switching the definition of MCCOMPRESS in user sessions to either GZIP for gzip-compressed or NONE for no compression; I recommend using GZIP. MCCOMPRESS defined to be TRUE asks for 'compress' compressed transfers, and neither of your machines has compress/uncompress installed (or, if it is, it is not in the PATH being used by users). I looked for a .cshrc file for the user 'unisup' on wxsession and did not find one even though the SHELL for 'unisup' is Tcsh. This implies that you are using a different method to define needed environment variables for McIDAS users. You should review what you are doing and update it to at least specify MCCOMPRESS as GZIP. After setting MCCOMPRESS=GZIP as 'unisup' on wxsession, the remote access to wxsat works fine: <logged in as 'unisup' on wxsession> setenv MCCOMPRESS GZIP dataloc.k ADD ER wxsat.db.erau.edu Group Name Server IP Address -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ER WXSAT.DB.ERAU.EDU <LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory.DATALOC -- done address@hidden data]$ dsinfo.k IMAGE ER Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: ER Name NumPos Content ------------ ------ -------------------------------------- GEC01V 1 1 KM VISIBLE CONUS DSINFO -- done address@hidden data]$ imglist.k ER/GEC01V FORM=ALL Image file directory listing for:ER/GEC01V Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Res (km) Image_Size sensor Lat Lon Lat Lon --- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ----- ----- ------------ 1 30 MAY 07150 17:45:00 32 87 Band: 1 1.32 1.22 3532 x 4252 proj: 0 created: 2007150 185639 memo: RT GVAR type:VISR cal type:BRIT offsets: data= 2816 navigation= 256 calibration= 0 auxiliary= 0 doc length: 0 cal length: 0 lev length: 0 PREFIX= 0 valcod: 0 zcor: 0 avg-smp: N start yyddd: 2007150 start time:174514 start scan: 306 lcor: 2837 ecor: 9277 bytes per pixel: 1 ss: 78 Resolution Factors (base=1): Line= 1.0 Element= 1.0 imglist.k: Description for SS number 78 was not found in the file SATANNOT imglist.k: done By the way, while I was investigating things on wxsat, I noticed that the user 'mcadde' had /bin/bash set as its default shell. My recommendation is to set the 'mcadde' account to have no login, so I changed its default shell to be /sbin/nologin and set it to have no password (both actions done using 'vipw' as 'root'). Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CNE-889859 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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